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Wed 26 Feb 2014

Controlling Web and Mail Servers from the iPhone or iPad

Category : Technology/libshh2.txt

I’m trying out the libssh2 library for iOS. It allows me to do something like this, connect back to my web server from my iPhone (or iPad) and run some shell commands on that server and return the results to my iPhone. For example, I can grab a few lines from my Apache log file and see who has been hitting my server, in real time. In effect, this allows me to build a version of WebMon on the iPhone.

It looks like an interesting thing to do. Will see how far I can go with this.

Again, feedback is welcome. Let me know if this is something that will be useful to you, too. I work harder on things that people want to use :)

libssh2.png

Other things we’re (i.e., my friend and co-programmer, Hai Hwee, and me) working on now:

One. Liya and Luca. OS X and iOS Sandbox compatibility. Specifically, we are trying to see if we can open and save SQLite files from anywhere on the file system, without restriction, and still maintain compatibility with the Sandbox. Not so easy to do because dealing with the Sandbox is a real pain.

Two. Liya. How to handle SQLite dates saved by Core Data, which uses a different reference date from that used by Unix systems. So, I can now handle dates saved as a certain number of seconds from a certain reference date but I’ve yet to find a way to handle the conflicting start dates used by the two systems, Unix and Core Data, smoothly and transparently to an end user.

Three. We’re getting a version of Luca ready for sale on both the Mac and iOS app stores.

Four. Lots of people downloading LDAP Enabler for Mavericks, but I’m still not able to make Postfix and Dovecot authenticate with the LDAP Server, so enabled by my enabler on Mavericks systems. It used to work on versions of OS X prior to Mavericks, so how come it doesn’t work now? I’m still looking for a solution.

Five. Lots of things to improve on all my “enabler” apps. "So much to do and so little time in a day” ® ™ :).

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